Allorealist ethics and the transversal power of suicide: The immanence of Deleuze and Guattari in Woof, Daddy

This article contextualizes the concept of mortality politics – the affective duration of power and care across present, after and imagined future lives – through a close reading of Transversal Theater Company’s productions of Woof, Daddy . Focusing on suicide as an unexperienceable experience, its relationship to care and its transversal power, we draw on Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Haraway, Kristeva and Bataille to demonstrate how transversal theatre guides audiences to navigate contradictory ethical frameworks across multiple space-times in the interest of a processual ethics that demands agentic meaning-making. We also demonstrate how transversal theatre acts as an ethical laboratory. In short, we are concerned with the ethics of and within unexperienceable experiences, the consequences of what those ethics might produce at scale and how transversal theatre ushers onto the stage, critically engages and negotiates those ethics.